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by heipei 3y ago
This 100%. I run a German limited company (GmbH) and I can't just send money somewhere without a proper invoice. I've even had issues with paid services (think VPN providers etc) that don't send out invoices, so then I'm
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by heipei 4y ago
We're using Elasticsearch with binary vectors and our own sub-token filtering approach, but if we were to start over again today we'd simply use the dense vectors and ANN built into Elasticsearch, just with float vectors.
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by heipei 4y ago
The iPhone is waterproof and you can take a photo with the physical volume up/down key. I've used it underwater a couple of times, none of my other proper cameras would be able to do that. My two cents.
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by heipei 4y ago
Hu, weird. We run 15 AX101 instances, 13 for Elasticsearch and 3 for ScyllaDB, and I haven't had one reboot yet. Though even if they did it would not impact the stability of our databases.
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by heipei 4y ago
Big Hetzner fan, but the EX101 does not feel like a good value compared to the AX101 that they've had for a while. Yes, the i9-13900 is faster than the 5950X, but does that justify half the RAM and half the disk? - EX101: Intel Core i9
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by heipei 4y ago
NSQ is a message broker that's intended to run in a distributed fashion, i.e. one broker per machine which is producing messages. Consumers then have to discover and connect to all brokers that carry messages on a given topic. NSQ pers
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by heipei 4y ago
Thanks for the great series of posts on this topic!
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by heipei 4y ago
If you're into that I suggest watching the SWR documentary around Big Manni / FlowTex.
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by heipei 4y ago
We use queues for various jobs, some of which are time-sensitive (e.g. emails), so the queue should be empty most of the time, some of which are background or re-processing (e.g. re-indexing), so queues can balloon and then take days to dra
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by heipei 4y ago
The economies of gas stations will be interesting to watch for sure. Given that they already make only a few cents of profit per gallon sold, their main source of profit is probably all the additional things (pizza and beer at 2am or on Sun
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by heipei 4y ago
No, I get that it's only new cars, but what I meant what was that the attractiveness of an ICE will rapidly diminish way before the cutoff date of 2035. As other comments have said, infrastructure might heavily favour EVs (gas stations
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by heipei 4y ago
It's going to be interesting to observe first hand how much earlier this will effectively take place, i.e. how much sooner folks will transition to only buying new EVs, because who wants to be the last person to buy a brand-new ICE jus
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by heipei 4y ago
True, that makes running these databases a bit easier since there are multiple nodes that can be restarted in any order. However the main point still stands: You could just as well run Postgres on Nomad/k8s by pinning it to a specific
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by heipei 4y ago
We run our databases (ScyllaDB, Elasticsearch) on our workload orchestrator (Nomad), just like any other job. The only difference is that the servers running the database workloads are not available for scheduling any other jobs, that way t
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by heipei 4y ago
Congrats on the launch, I think the description of what MrScraper does vs what you'd have to do yourself really nails it, and that is the value prop. Having experience in that area myself I can say that this looks like a great product
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by heipei 4y ago
I know this is a peak HN comment, but I really fail to see the appeal of using a third-party solution for something so basic. In my applications, feature flags are simply controlled via a "tags" field per user and per team. Additi
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by heipei 4y ago
Trigram indexing is also used by the Elasticsearch "wildcard" field type for fast arbitrary regex/infix matching: https://www.elastic.co/blog/find-strings-within-strings-fast...
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by heipei 4y ago
As a German myself I think I can confidently say that most of my country-men don't have the slightest feeling for what "remote" actually means until they have actually been to some of these places outside of Europe. "Rem
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by heipei 4y ago
Look at the papers of Andrew Zhai (Pinterest) and how they do it.
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by heipei 4y ago
Yes, though at this point I'd say this is old news and table stakes, so I expect everyone to be using this type of data already. As an example, Orbital Insights began tracking 250k parking lots across 96 retail chains at least all the
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by heipei 4y ago
I'm a long-time vim user, and haven't really used anything else over the past 15-20 years. I use a nice color scheme, barely any plugins and a moderate but static vimrc. I feel like this is my happy place, it let's me write w
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by heipei 4y ago
> In fact, the German in-joke is that the reason Tesla built a factory in Germany is so that the Germans could (try to) teach them how to fix the panel gaps. :-) As a German I can certainly say that folks here really pay attention to whe
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by heipei 4y ago
Those are the same numbers as on the tax invoice, and in that section it just says "Fees for all charges, including card charges and other payment methods." Curious if that number already includes charges for things like Subscript
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by heipei 4y ago
Been using Stripe for years but now I realise that I don't even know what plan I'm on and can't see what Stripe is charging me. I get a monthly "tax invoice" which includes all charges done through Stripe and comes
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by heipei 4y ago
Not if you download a small number of large files ;)
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by heipei 4y ago
That's great to hear, happy Hetzner customer for many years. Now if they start offering dedicated servers in US locations with equally competitive pricing as for their Germany and Finland DCs then a lot of other players are going to fe
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by heipei 4y ago
This is great, not having to set up Consul or Vault makes an easy deployment process even easier. Upgrades are just as easy, just replace the binary, restart the cluster one node at a time and that's it. Never had any issue with Nomad
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by heipei 4y ago
Thanks for the great post! One small addition: Nomad recently implemented basic service discovery functionality into Nomad itself, so for simple use-cases you might get away with just a Nomad cluster without Consul running alongside: https
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by heipei 4y ago
I believe AWS is also using Equinix in some locations.
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by heipei 4y ago
We Germans probably have a standard design system for the documents we send by Fax...

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